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Re: Political QUOTES

"If you want total security, go to prison. There you're fed, clothed, given medical care and so on. The only thing lacking is freedom." -Dwight Eisenhower

"Never has our ability to shield our affairs from prying eyes been at such a low ebb. The availability and use of secure encryption may offer an opportunity to reclaim some portion of the privacy we have lost. Government efforts to control encryption thus may well implicate not only the First Amendment rights of cryptographers intent on pushing the boundaries of their science, but also the constitutional rights of each of us as potential recipients of encryption's bounty." -US Appeals Court Judge Betty Fletcher

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"When the President starts lying he begins to need evidence to back up his lies because in this democracy he is questioned on his statements. It then percolates down through the bureaucracy that you are helping the Boss if you come up with evidence that is supportive of our public position and you are distinctly unhelpful if you commit to paper statements that might leak to the wrong people.

The effect of that is to poison the flow of information to the President himself and to create a situation where a President can be almost, to use a metaphor, psychotically divorced from the realities in which he is acting...." : Daniel Ellsburg to the US Senate on Foreign Relations, May 13, 1970
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The only foes that threaten America are the enemies at home, and these are ignorance, superstition and incompetence. : Elbert Hubbard (American editor, publisher and writer, 1856-1915)
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Whatever America hopes to bring to pass in the world must first come to pass in the heart of America. : Dwight David Eisenhower (American 34th President (1953-61). 1890-1969)
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America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. : Jimmy Carter (American 39th US President (1977-81). Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002. b.1924)

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The dissenter is every human being at those moments of his life when he resigns momentarily from the herd and thinks for himself.

Barbara Ehrenreich:

No matter that patriotism is too often the refuge of scoundrels. Dissent, rebellion, and all-around hell-raising remain the true duty of patriots.

David Ogilvy:

Talent ... is most likely to be found among non-conformists, dissenters, and rebels.
Edward R. Murrow:

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.

Edward R. Murrow:

No one can terrorize a whole nation, unless we are all his accomplices. (about Senator Joseph McCarthy's accusations about Communism in the American government)

Eleanor Holmes Norton:

The only way to make sure people you agree with can speak is to support the rights of people you don't agree with.

Eric Hoffer:

The beginning of thought is in disagreement -- not only with others but also with ourselves.

Florynce Kennedy:

You've got to rattle your cage door. You've got to let them know that you're in there, and that you want out. Make noise. Cause trouble. You may not win right away, but you'll sure have a lot more fun.

George Orwell:

In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth becomes a revolutionary act.

Harry S Truman:

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

J. William Fulbright:

In a democracy, dissent is an act of faith.
John F. Kennedy:

Without debate, without criticism, no administration and no country can succeed -- and no republic can survive

Mohandas K. Gandhi:

Non-cooperation is a measure of discipline and sacrifice, and it demands respect for the opposite views.

Vaclav Havel:

ou do not become a "dissident" just because you decide one day to take up this most unusual career. You are thrown into it by your personal sense of responsibility, combined with a complex set of external circumstances. You are cast out of the existing structures and placed in a position of conflict with them. It begins as an attempt to do your work well, and ends with being branded an enemy of society.

William O. Douglas:

Restriction of free thought and free speech is the most dangerous of all subversions. It is the one un-American act that could most easily defeat us.

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The "global economy" is another name for imperialism, and imperialism is a transnational form of capitalism. The essence of capitalism is to turn nature into commodities and commodities into capital. The live green earth is transformed into dead, gold bricks, with luxury items for the few and toxic slag heaps for the many. The glittering mansion overlooks a vast sprawl of shanty towns, wherin a desperate, demoralized humanity is kept in line with drugs, television, and armed force.
Michael Parente